I am obsessive. And right now I cannot get enough of Guillermo Del Toro and Alfonso Cuaron. Children of Men and Pan's Labyrinth are my absolute favorite films of the year.
Click here to listen to an amazing interview with Cuaron in which he uses the term syntagm to discuss film grammar...
More greatness from Del Toro:
"I do think there is far more an immoral position in creating a movie like 'Free Willy,' where I'm telling a kid, you know, 'If you swim next to a ... killer whale, she'll become your friend.' ... No! She will eat your ... guts and spit you out!"
Del Toro continues in a more reflective vein: "If my child watches my movies by accident, they will not try to think the world is a safe place, which it's not. Children should know the dangers of the world and not be neurotically isolated from them."
An even better article about Pan's Labyrinth. Be warned as these will reveal plot details but it's all good food for the head when you digest these movies.
I haven't written about Pan's Labyrinth yet but that's coming. It is so hard to choose from it and Children of Men as my favorite film of the year, the ones that I absolutely cloyingly and overbearingly insist you see because they will make you a better person for having seen them. One thing that strikes me about both is that they have a pop sensibility tempered by true intellectualism that is not divorced from emotion. There is a rigour that underpins their work in regards to form and function; but they are not divorced from sensation and mood.
Click here to listen to an amazing interview with Cuaron in which he uses the term syntagm to discuss film grammar...
More greatness from Del Toro:
"I do think there is far more an immoral position in creating a movie like 'Free Willy,' where I'm telling a kid, you know, 'If you swim next to a ... killer whale, she'll become your friend.' ... No! She will eat your ... guts and spit you out!"
Del Toro continues in a more reflective vein: "If my child watches my movies by accident, they will not try to think the world is a safe place, which it's not. Children should know the dangers of the world and not be neurotically isolated from them."
An even better article about Pan's Labyrinth. Be warned as these will reveal plot details but it's all good food for the head when you digest these movies.
I haven't written about Pan's Labyrinth yet but that's coming. It is so hard to choose from it and Children of Men as my favorite film of the year, the ones that I absolutely cloyingly and overbearingly insist you see because they will make you a better person for having seen them. One thing that strikes me about both is that they have a pop sensibility tempered by true intellectualism that is not divorced from emotion. There is a rigour that underpins their work in regards to form and function; but they are not divorced from sensation and mood.
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Best films of the year? All three weeks of it? Just kidding. My sister saw Pan's Labyrinth before she had her baby. Said it was a weird one to watch while pregnant. I want to catch up now that the mag is at the printer, but it's not going to happen...
-mw
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